Global gradient estimates in  elliptic  problems under minimal data and domain regularity

Andrea Cianchi; Vladimir Maz'ya

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.285

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2015, Volume 14, Issue 1: 285-311. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.285

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Global gradient estimates in elliptic problems under minimal data and domain regularity

Andrea Cianchi^1, and
Vladimir Maz'ya^2,

1.
Dipartimento di Matematica "U.Dini", Università di Firenze, Piazza Ghiberti 27, 50122 Firenze
2.
Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping

Received: January 31, 2014

Revised: February 28, 2014

Published: December 2014

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This is a survey of some recent contributions by the authors on global integrability properties of the gradient of solutions to boundary value problems for nonlinear elliptic equations in divergence form. Minimal assumptions on the regularity of the ground domain and of the prescribed data are pursued.

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